For decades, Jewish travelers to Jamaica have bemoaned the fact that the island’s signature “jerk” cuisine was off limits due to a lack of Kosher supervision. Thanks to the Chabad of Jamaica, who opened the doors of the first-ever Kosher restaurant in Jamaica last week, the classic Caribbean culinary experience is now within reach for the thousands of strictly-Kosher tourists who visit the island every year.

Known as “Chabad’s Kosher Hot Spot,” the Kosher eatery is the newest addition to the “Hip Strip” in Montego Bay, an expansive array of restaurants and shops that runs the length Gloucester Avenue. The Chabad of Jamaica announced the

“It gave me my voice. It helped me evolve as a person,” says 18-year-old Rachel Wilkes of her years with CTeen, the Chabad teen network. “It showed me that I can be who I want to be.”

The native of Hollywood, Fla., is off to study for a year in Israel, but before that—and right after graduating high school—she made time to attend the fourth annual CTeen Leadership Retreat. She joined 200 other young people and Chabad-Lubavitch

Driving into Timna Park, a 15,000-acre nature reserve expanse bounded by majestic, red-tinged craggy hills, it’s easy to feel the awe and serenity that’s the hallmark of any desert experience. Drive 20 minutes south, and you’ll arrive at the brash Red Sea resort town of Eilat, where water sports and shopping are the order of the day.

Timna is less than 10 minutes by car from the new Ilan and Assaf Ramon Airport that’s scheduled to open next spring near Eilat, in what is expected to be a

Jerusalem may seem an unlikely location for Israel’s first aquarium – the city is approximately 850 meters above sea level, with no natural bodies of water in the area. But Shai Doron, CEO of the capital’s Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, says that as a major contributor to the national biodiversity plan and as Israel’s capital, the zoo was by far the most logical place for the marine center.

“We have a lot of credit with the National Parks Authority, and with the public,” Doron told reporters